HOW CAN IT BE THAT EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN SEE
IS ALL IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME
Here is an amazing fact about what you see.
Assume that when the weather is clear on a summer afternoon you are standing at a spot on a clearing at the top of a hill with an unobstructed view in all directions. Assume that when you look in one direction you see a forested area and meadows in which there are thousands of trees, bushes, flowers and countless other objects. In another direction you see miles of family farms with planted areas, lawns, houses, barns, livestock and people. And in a third direction, within the first couple of miles from you there are homes in a suburban community, behind which you see hundreds of buildings in a city.
From the spot where you are located, you can look in many different directions and focus on countess details of different things in different places. And the reason that you can see each of those different things is because the light that bounces off of each of those things travels to you and is located at the spot where you are. Now that means that the light waves that make the pictures that you can see of each of those millions and millions of things are all at the same spot where you are. And they are all there at the same time; because at any moment you could look in any particular direction and seen what is there. And they are all there all of the time; because you could look and see what is in any direction at any moment that you want to. So that means that at every moment the light that comes from absolutely everything that you could see in every direction, and at every distance from the spot where you are, all has to be at exactly the same spot at the same time. Absolutely all of it! How is that possible?
Don’t the waves, or particles or whatever the light is that is reflected from each of the countless millions of things that you could look at from that spot interfere with each other? How can they all be at the same place at the same time? How can you possibly have the ability to look at any one of those countless millions of things in your field of view that you want to at any time?
And the light waves referred to above are just the tip of an incredible, incomprehensible iceberg. Because what is described above has to be true at absolutely every single spot in the world, with respect to whatever can be seen in any direction from any spot where you are.
And that’s not all: because if you looked through a pair of binoculars or a telescope from the spot where you are, you could see countless additional things, and a tremendous amount of more detail than you could see with your unaided eyes. And all of the light that shows all of those additional things and all of their details has to be at the same spot at the same time. Because the light does not know, and the world does not know, in what direction and at what distance you are going to look at any particular time. So the light from every single leaf in every one of the thousands of the trees in the forest mentioned above that is visible from the spot where you are all have to be at the same spot where you are, all at the same time. And the same thing is true regarding the light from every visible part of every bush, house, person, building and everything else that can be seen with your aided and with your unaided eyes from whatever spot you are in—that is, all of the light from all of those things all have to be in the same place at the same time. It’s all there! In every spot! All of the time! And the same thing is true at every other spot everywhere! How can that be? How can it be that whatever all of the waves or particles or whatever the light from everything that you can see might be, are all in the same place at the same time without interfering with each other? What is actually happening?
But that’s not all. At the spot on the top of the hill described above, and just about every place else, there are not just light waves but also countless sound waves, radio waves, waves from television signals, heat waves, and ultraviolet and infrared light rays. And they are all in the same place at the same time as the visible light waves that are reflected off of everything that you can see. And keep in mind that radio and TV waves can be received from hundreds, and sometimes from thousands, of different stations at the same spot at any time that a proper device (such as a radio) tunes to its frequency. And in addition to all of that, there are short wave radio waves at that same spot that can be received from all around the world.
And then, in the same place, at the same time, there are the countless sound waves that can be amplified and received from far away with listening devices that can be aimed in countless different directions to receive sounds from the innumerable people, animals, vehicles, and other things located both close by and far away.
So, all told, at one spot there are a tremendous number, an incredible number, of waves all in one place at the same time.
Didn’t we learn that waves interfere with each other?
So why don’t all of those waves interfere with each other and become distorted, imperceptible and unintelligible?
Apparently nobody knows.
But before wrapping all of this up, that’s not all—there is even more in the same place at the same time. From the spot first mentioned above on a clearing at the top of a hill where you are said to be standing you could have the eyepiece of a powerful telescope. And with it, at night, from that spot, you can see not only our sun, moon and other planets in our solar system (at the appropriate times of the day), but you can also see innumerable galaxies, and millions upon millions of stars and other celestial objects. And that is in addition to what you can see from that spot all around you on the Earth.
Of course, there are also light waves from the countless tiny and microscopic things that you can see from that spot with appropriate magnification equipment.
Now, if all of those waves in one place at the same time is not both amazing and incredible; then nothing is.